First of all, please
allow me to introduce myself. My name is Clara Remacha Corbalán and the reason for
writing this blog has been a sum of feelings, experiences and connections that
I have experienced since I started an International Master in Management in
EADA Business School in Barcelona this last September.
The idea of
this blog is to connect things that I’m studying in EADA with my own life experiences. And by my life
experiences I mean real-life situations that I have had in areas such as sport,
retailing, education, music, events, etc. I want to point out how management is
not only in the business world. It’s everywhere. And since I began these
studies I’ve been making this kind of connection in very different situations
and places. That’s why I want to share it with whoever wants to learn that
management is in everything and that everything is about management.
To draw a
context to all these thoughts, let’s write something about me. This is my
story:
I’m a girl
from a small village near Barcelona and I graduated last year with a degree in
Industrial Engineering, and a minor in Management. Now, as I have already
mentioned, I’m studying an International Master in Management in EADA Business
School. I have always wanted to do engineering with the long-term objective of
studying a Master in Management so that I could understand not only the
technical aspects of industry, but also to gain the management capability to be
a good manager. But this was just through study, and I haven’t found the point
of them until now, when I feel that I can apply it to my own career and life.
I’m also a professional
athlete, specialising in the heptathlon, which is an athletic event that
consists of seven tests: 100m hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200m, long jump,
javelin throw and 800m. I’ve been doing that since I was 12 due to the
recommendation of my primary’s gym teacher (thanks a lot by the way), and by
now, I’ve been running for F.C.Barcelona for more than seven years.
I’ve been
Spanish Champion twice, silver medallist on ten occasions, and bronze medallist
once; but I’ve been a medallist in all of the Spanish Championships in which I
have participated. I have also represented Spain in some international
meetings, and I have held Catalonia’s Hexathlon Record since 2008.
In addition, I
have been giving private classes in an academy for many years and so education
is another of the fields in my day-to-day life, as retail, since my mother owns
a wine business in my village, and music, since my father owns a lights and
sound company that provides any event with all the necessary infrastructure.
When EADA granted
me the Master Elite Sports Scholarship I felt responsible for making the most
out of the Master but it has being an easy task since I love what I’m doing at
the moment. That’s why I’m opening this site.
I’ll try to
make connections between the business world and the situations I’ve experienced
in my life, and through it, I’m sure that I will learn a lot and I’ll gain a
lot of real experience and deeper understanding of the reality, which, at the
end of the day, is, as Jack Welch said, the ultimate competitive advantage.
